CryptoDep attracted attention on April 13th with a new X post titled “Recent Crypto Funding Events,” which shows that crypto funding is still happening in multiple parts of the market simultaneously. The list spans infrastructure, AI, consumer fintech, social apps, prediction markets, exchanges, and DeFi, with disclosed rounds ranging from seven figures to Pharos’ outstanding $44 million Series A. This post is not about a single topic, but rather a broad return of capital to projects that sit at the intersection of cryptocurrencies and consumer or financial utilities.
The largest amount revealed in this roundup was from Pharos, which announced it has closed a $44 million Series A round to build on-chain, real-world asset infrastructure across Asia and the rest of the world. The company describes itself as a financial-grade, asset-native layer 1 chain, and the new capital brings total funding to $52 million. This is a strong signal that the RWA story is still attracting serious investor attention, especially for projects looking to integrate compliance, payment rails, and blockchain infrastructure into one stack.
Another notable line item is Oh, which reportedly raised $7.5 million in Series A led by Maven11 Capital with backing from L1D, Auros Global, Hashed, Maelstrom Fund, and Cadenza Ventures, with participation from previous backers including Cyber Fund, Kosmos VC, and Tangent. The project is building decentralized AI service tools, including the Web3 AI platform and OhChat, positioning the project in a rapidly growing area of overlap between cryptocurrencies, AI infrastructure, and consumer AI products. In other words, this is the kind of funding story that shows there is still appetite for investors to back AI-native crypto ideas if they feel the product angle is clear enough.
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Consumer benefits and social products also made the list. GoSats has raised $5 million in Series A led by Konvoy with participation from Y Combinator and Taisu Ventures, and the company says the funding will help scale its platform that turns everyday expenses into Bitcoin and gold rewards. Meanwhile, Giggles closed a $1.2 million pre-seed round led by 1kx, with support from Virtuals Protocol, Social Graph Ventures, Noar Ventures, and other investors.
Giggles is described as a social app where the content itself is tradable, and falls directly into the emerging categories of social finance and tokenized attention. Both rounds suggest that investors still think there is room for crypto products that are more like everyday apps than classic trading tools.
The DeFi names in CryptoDep’s post tell a similar story. Enhanced has raised $1 million in strategic pre-seed led by Maximum Frequency Ventures with participation from GSR, Selini, and Flowdesk to expand its structured yield and options-based strategy across more on-chain assets, including tokenized real-world assets.
Splyce Finance also completed a strategic round for an undisclosed amount with investors including Sui Foundation, Stellar Foundation, and Solana Foundation. Predict.fun also has undisclosed funds, but its backing is meaningful. YZi Labs said it has made a strategic follow-on investment alongside Susquehanna Crypto following the execution of the project’s EASY Residency, and said the platform is also tied to driving Binance Wallet’s prediction market.
The roundup also includes CAEX, a Vietnam-affiliated exchange that is working to meet Vietnam’s capital requirements for regulated crypto pilots and has received strategic support from OKX Ventures and HashKey Capital, and some of the deals in the image are marked as yet to be finalized as the terms were not fully disclosed at the time of reporting. Taken together, CryptoDep’s posts indicate that the market is looking to not only fund speculative ideas, but also the plumbing, compliance, and consumer base that may define the next phase of crypto adoption.
